Following the usual sage advice of their crazy clerics, parents in nothern Pakistan are shunning polio vaccinations for their children. By way of mosque loudspeakers, radio and just plain old rumor mongering the prophet's psychotics are calling the vaccine an American plot to sterilize Muslim children. Similar stupidity kept polio alive, well and spreading in Kenya a few years back. Check out the story at The Sydney Morning Herald.
In other news, Muslim students and activists in Egypt are trying to get Saint Valentine's Day renamed "The Prophet Mohammed's Day". The students say they want to turn the consumerism of Valentines Day into a broader vision of love for humankind. I wonder if that includes loving Jews, Christians and Hindus and respecting them as equals?
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